3D Printing and the Uplift Prize

In 2009, frustrated by the seeming futility of standard charities and poverty-reduction plans, Kartik Gada came up with a new idea: enable impoverished people to lift themselves out of desperate circumstances by providing them with the tools to manufacture their own goods and capital. He decided that self-replicating 3D printers were exactly the tool to do so. Connecting with the RepRap movement, he created the Uplift Prize: an incentive for inventors to build a top-of-the line self-replicating printer to be distributed among the world's neediest populations. This December, the $80,000 grand prize will be awarded. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/98468/uplift-prize-3d-printing/
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